Speaker
Prof.
Shin Nakamura
(Chuo U.)
Description
We discover a new tricritical point realized only in nonequilibrium steady states, using the AdS/CFT correspondence. Our system is a (3+1)-dimensional strongly coupled large-Nc gauge theory. The tricritical point is associated with a chiral symmetry breaking under the presence of an electric current and a magnetic field. The critical exponents agree with those of the Landau theory of equilibrium phase transitions. This suggests that the presence of a Landau-like phenomenological theory behind our nonequilibrium phase transitions.
